Ice-cream-cone machine.



L HJLANIER. ICE CREAM GONE MACH HIE.

APPLIOATIOK P/Ififif FEB.21,1910.

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Patented May 28, 1912.

D Mamas 15.. H. LAME-R. ICE 01mm 001m MACHINE.

APPLICATION IILBD PEB.21,191 0.

Patented May 28, 1912.

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18 MW a m L. HQ LANIER.

ICE CREAM GONE MAUGHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED FEB.21,1910.

maimed May 28, 1912.

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#f mM W J v l L i lvl Ilk meluwwb/ L. H. LANIER.

ICE CREAM GONE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED $23.21, 1910v Patentd May 28, 1912.

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L. H. LANIER.

ICE CREAM GONE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 21, 1910.

Patented May 28, 1912.

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WAXwe/mm Campbell and: State. of Kentuckv, have in- 5 for ice "erquantities .e si,

5 various advantages resultingt'rem their use P E T OFFICE LEWIS It.LANIER, 0J5 NEWPORT, KENT CKY, ASSIGNOR, .OF ONE-HALF \TO LUDWIG L.

' 's'rmcxnngor CINCINNATI, 01110;

ICE-.CBEAM-CONE MACHINE.

Application 'med-rebmar 'zl, 1910. serial No. 545,194.

p t iLI-HtISTiA'h'tjIl-ilti a cit-igaenof the lipiteldf tat and aresident of the city of "New po in the county 0f vented certain'new "anduseful Improvements 1n Ice-Cream t.

molding. and ha cipg p have come generally.

ofmyit V I wh ch such they cones f l 1-5 if} inventioii' f.iateer'tainnorel (.-ontru cti(n a} l: antigenic-n1 of.hereinafterfpointcd out and 'clainied several 1" eat tjres ofany,ginveution conjointly or otherwi e will be apparent fromthe followimleseription and claims.

In the (1ru l igurtg[ist frontelera tion of nuy nnprored'machinewithtlielower portion of the supporting standards l)l '()l\'(ll away.Fig.2 is a eentral Vertical section of the same- Dig. 3 is asideview ofone of the end plates. for: su iporting the operating 1 mechanism. 1ig..4-is a top plan lview of the l same. l igl fi is a front viewindetail of one of the mold lifting .slides. Fig. 6 is a top plan viewoft'he'same. Fig. 7 is a (Toss, section on the lines 7, 7. ot' liig'. 5.Fig. N is a rearelevation of the upper porti in of the machine. partlyinsertion. Fig. 37 is an end elevation of the mold partly in stttiinll.Fig. 10 is an end elevation of the molds. showing themold plates andcoresin elevated'p ostitioi'i; Fig. ii is a detailed side view of one otthe molds of one Fig. 12 is a front. .\iew of one of ilr spiders orframes for supporting the mole. Fig. 13 iS a side View partly in.vertieal seetion ta k n on the line l3. 13 at Fig. 12. I

l, 5 represent the supporting standards for the operating parts whichare suitably lu'aced together by cross braces 2, to form a sulxstantialframework to support the 'operating parts. Securely bolted on top ofthis framework are the front and rear plates 55,

n inety-"degrees apart.

I for-tiling the framework for the operating parts." These plates areformed with the eentraILopening 5 aroundwhichthe metal is fOI'lTIQd IDtOa hub 6, and in these plates the main operating shaft7 is mounted. Thisshaft is provided in fron-tg witha wheel 8 "-lteypd on the end of theshaft, and'handles 9, .9 extend out radially from the periphery 'o fthe. wheel for rotating the shaft in either direction. ll lountedloosely on this shaft; is the mold frame carrying themolds, There are,four sets of these..moldsilwith a double "set of molds in each moldsection, and with he: seetions arranged a round the shaft 7 p loosely onthe shaft 7 are, the

)iderfran es 10 11 and 12, the front one w.l lieh,' 10, isillustratedin' Figs. 12 and I3.I",Secuiely bolted on. thetiouter ends llof the -spide1 arms are the pla tes 15, vin which platesare" formed'thelower portion of the molds 16.. Each plate is provided '1 Mounted with alonlgitudinal series of these molds arranged, 1n two rows as many moldsbeing prm'i'ded in a. row as desired and the dimensions of the nmelnnemay permit.

Loosely mounted on top of these. lower "plates arethe plates l't'whichrarry the'uppenporlion IS'ol the molds. These mold parts correspondru nu'mher to the lower mold se tions and are formed so as to aerurately register with the lower sections and .to form together a cnefshaped mold.

it) is the top or cover plate For the molds. and this" plate hass uredthereto and de pending therefrom the cores 20. while imnu diatelj'underneath the core plate 19 is a stripper plate 21 which li suspendedfrom and sm-uted to the under surt'are ot' the core molds has referredto the construction o. one

of the four mold sections, hut it will he understood that all of theinolds are eonstructed in exactly the same way. so that the deseriptionof our of the. sets will apply to them all, and I have, therefore. usedsimilar reterenee characters for the \'iill Jll. mold parts of eachscetiorn 'lwt'ori-a describing the details of the oper any convenientway, and the 'preferable' method as illustrated is by.means of a pair oftubular gas burners 24, arranged underneath themolds lengthwise thereof,one at ner face 0 the pivot for this segment, an

each side and sup lied with as through the pipe 25-controll by the coc26.

The batter for making the cones is supplied to the uppermost. side ofthe molds; then the molds are rotated a quarter of a him which bringsanother set of the molds to the top from which the baked cones areremoved and new batter su plied, and then the molds again rotate anotherquarter of a turn, and from the burner or other source of suppl isacting on the materialin the'molds, so at until baked the are subjectedto;the heat continuously an on all sides.

For rotating the molds a quarter of a turn, I provide as follows :-Asalready stated, the spiders 10, 11 and 12 separating the frames,are'loosely mounted on the shaft The front spider 10 is mounted,however, on

the hub 27 of a. driving arm 28 which is ,keyed to the shaft .7 so as toalwaysrotate with it. This arm 28 carries onlts outer end 29 a pin30,loosely mounted in the end v of the arm, to slide parallel with theshaft 7.

Pivoted on the inner faceof the plate/3 is a beveled segment 31, showninsection in Fig. 2 and in dotted lines in Fig. 3. 32 is d t e se ent isheld in osition by the stop 33 on t e inf the plate.

The outer face of the s ider 10 is pro- .vided with correspondingybeveled segmental recesses 34, 35, one set for each arm of the s ider,and the inclination of the beveled aces of the groovesis 1n the samedirection as illustrated in Fig. .13.

It will be evident from this construction that as the shaft 7 .with itsoperatin wheel 8 is rotated from right to left, that t e loose in 30slidin' in the end of the driving arm 28 will trave up the bevel on thesegment 31 and will be pushed into the groove 34; then as the rotationis continued, the pin will abut up a ainst the shoulder 36 and themovement of t c driving arm will carry the molds with it,

When a quarter of a turn has been given to the molds, in order to lockthe molds in position during the subsequent-operations to ing is a rocklever 39, provided with an arm 40 formed with a lug 41, adapted to enterthe slot37 in the mold plate, and this lever so on continuously. Theheat rock lever is alsoprovided with a weighted fjo arm 48 to return itto itsnormal-"position,

which is with the lug 41 in enga ement with the slot'37 in the moldplate. 8 the shaft is rotated from-right to-left, however, the

rock lever is shifted to the right, which raises the lug out of the slot37 and releases In the rotation of the'shaft 7 and arm 45, the roller 44finall passes be-T yond the end of the arm 42 and t e weighted-- arm 48rocks the lever 39 to th'e}-left' and causes the molds to become alocked.

the molds.

Now as the shaft 7 is rocked om left to the roller 44 an the. moldsremain locked, as the shaft 7 is rocked back to its original position.In order that the roller 44 may pass by the lockin arm 42 on the returnstroke, I cut away the contact surface ofthe locking. arm from itspivotal center outward for a short distance, and pivot at 49 on thelocking arm 42 afshort arm 50 which closes up this space, when thecontact roller 44 is on the left of the arm 42, and it swings out right,the lockin arm 42 lies onthe left of of thefl'way durin the returnstroke'of the arm 45. A weig t 51 is provided for this short arm 50, sothat normally the contact surface for the locking arm 42 is unbroken. Inthisway, the molds are locked in position except when they are to begiven a quarter of a turn. a

In order to automatically raise and lower the core plate and the movablesections of the molds, I provide as follows: The'upper section of themolds 18 is normally locked to the lower'section 16 by the hook '52which is pivoted at 53 to the upper section and engages a pin 54 on thelower-i section. The core plate 19 and the stripper plate 21 arenormally locked together and to the upper sections of the molds by thecatches 55, 55, pivoted to the plate 17 .and engaging over the edgeofthe core plate.

It is necessary that the upper section of the mold proper shall belifted as well as the core plate and the stripper plate, and toaccomplish this I provide the vertical dovetailed grooves 56 in theouter faces of the plates 3 and 4, and in these grooves I mount thedove-tailed slides 57, one for each end of, no

by the connecting bar 63 with a stud 64 on the o aerating wheel 8." Theopposite end of the s aft 7 ,as shown in Fig. 2, is provided with thecrank arm 65 connected by connecting bar 66 with the stud 67 on theslide 57 the operationof the operating wheel, the" the connecting bars63, 66,.and that the main;

. areprovided on the main slide 57 to sup in order to -raisethe twos'etsof plates of 'chlne are provided with the upwardly eXtend '1' wouldinterfere with the return of the In order to open up the molds, theoperator tastings.

at the other end of the machine, so that intwo slides move together. I IThe inner ends of the'projec'ting arms 58 and 9 on the main slide 57andthe innerends f the projecting arms til, 62, on the supplementalslide 60 for each end of the maing lugs 68, 68. for the arms 58 and 59,and G9, 69 for. the arms 61 and 62,-2.1!" these lugs come contact withthe uncle: edge of the core: plate and the plate for the upper sectionof the molds during the raising of the slides. The raising arms on theslides are spaced apart, so that the 11 per arms will first raise thecore plate and then thelower arms will follow and raise the uppersection of the molds. This movement is brought about by rotating theshaft 7 bythe' operating handles 9 from left to'right; Itwill be evidentthat this movement will raise slides 57,57, will be 'raised. Pins 70,70,

port the .slide16'0 and carry. them up in the movement of the mainslides. The distance between thelifting arms 58, 59, and '61, 62,

the mold properly, is such. that int-he return of the slides to normalposition, the'shaft arms (31, 62, and therefore these arms are mountedona separate Slide which allows the separate." slide to' move upwardlywhen coming in contact with theshaft-to permit the main slide to returnto its normal posit ion.

As the sections of jhemolds and the core plates are of considerableweight, I provide a counter weight 71, which is connected by a rope 72to the segment 73, keyed to the shaft 7, as shown in Figs. 2 and 9.

The operation of my machine is as follows:-l et us assume that the moldshave been iillcd and baked and the apparatus is in the positionillustrated'in Figs. 1 and rolatcs the shaft 7 by the handles 5)a-quartcr ot' a turn from left to right. This movement raiscs the slidesand 60 at'the front and rear-of the machine. and in the first part ofthe movement the arms 58, 55 at each end couio in contact wil'lrtheunder surface of the core plates. This movem nt, therefore, raisesthocorc platc. The stripper plate ill. however, being: hung on the corcplate by the dowel pins. and the upward movement of the arms bringinglhcni first into contact with the latches the stripper plate for themonlcnt still coiuinln's to rest n the upper section of the mold.solthat the 5 cone are held in thc mold by tinplair :-t ing on theflange 7- of the com. in this l way, the core plate with its eorcs canbe drawn from the molds without disturbing ment of the core plate,however, carries with it the stripperplateq Nextthe liftln'g arms on theplate 18 carrying the 'npper mold sections, andi the, upper sections ofthe mold will be lifted? Be the baked oones. 0 The further upward moveheel 76Lo'f the'hooks 52 and disconnect the hooks fromwthe -pins-,54,'so as to allow of this separation. The edge of the flange on theplate-18 is'slotted so asfto allow for the passage of thejupper arms 58,59, without distnrbing the mold section, and to provide for this, thearms 61, 62 are set inside ofthe arms .58, 59,, as indicated, in Fig.6.,

When thenpper section of the moldsjhas been thus lifted, the, plate'j.17avill carry 'ith' it the baked'cones as thejeones will be suppa d y. hflange b l i en eami the mold plates will be in the position shown" inFig. 10, which 77 represents the baked;

cones. The movement] of fthe. op jeratin Wheel f mf-l jt-tarislitis..nmv teppe by passing a. boardfiin'clerneat hr th the'eonesand ,raisingit', pnshed outQiutdwilldr H V mold section, asillustrated "indot'ted t m s the batter poured intothe molds, meshes thecore \p ate' with its cores is brought down and locked in position,thehooks-52 ag a he pins ,Durina'th sg returnmovemexitofftliegshgt-ftlto hringfth The operator then proceeds to rotate themolds by turning the operating handle from right to left a quarter of aturn. This brings the roller into contact with the 1ocl inp; lever andraises the lug 41 out. of its engagement with the slide i11 the moldframe. and the'pin 30 is shifted by the beveled segment 31 intoengagement with the groove in the spider I10. and the mold frame thusbecomes locked to the driving/shaft and rotated a quarter of a turnf15kt the end of this quarter turn. the roller 4-1 passes beyond the endof theloeking lever 4:2 and the weighted arm 48 rock's the lever,bring-- in; the locking lug 4.1 into the locking slot 37 01 the moldframe. This rotation of the molds a quarter of a turn has brought anv..95 in Fig. 10. ,Thejshaft is then .1" 0tated'.f rol 1i;;j right toleft to'bringbaek' the upper section of the mold into position ,onthe;lower see-Q1 tio'n. The molds and core are reaseajimd' other sectionofthe molds to the topjand the operator then proceeds as before torotate the operating wheel from left to ri ht, raister of a tui'na Inthis way, the'process is' practicaily continuous.

In order that, as the molds are baked, the

batter mty be gradually compressed and obtain a more uniform baking,,alnd more perfect coaes,;I mount on each core-plate,

lengthwise thereof, atthe middle portion, a roller 78, this roller beingheld in position by lugs 79, (9 on the upper plate. There is a rollerfor each of the four sections.- -5;1he ends of theie rollers ridearound, as the molds are rotated, on-an internal flange 80 formed on theinner face of the plates 3 and i 4-. This flange is indicated by thedotted well on the sides, I provide side p ates line 80 in' Fig. 3; Theflanged surface is formed eccentric of the center of the opershaft 7, sothat as'the molds are reu the rollers andwith them the core "plates willbe pressed in to the main body of the molds. In order to moreeffectually obtain this pressure and distribute it umformly, I providean intermediate supporting plate 81; for the rollers which is formedwith eccentric surfaces to correspond with the flange, 80.

In order that during the baking operation, the molds maybe inclosed onto as for each sideof the machine, and top covers 82, 83, the sidespermanently fixed 1n place to form with the end plat-cs2 and 3 an oven,

and th top covers 32, 83 can also-be permanendy secured in place.

What I claim as new, and of my invention and desire to sccur'e-byLetters Paten t,

v Ina machine of the character specified fr mold frame comprisln aseries of outer :hold forms and'a separa le series of inner ogre forms,the (utter mold forms, being d ijidedj transversely into two separableparts forming an up er and a lower body portion for each mold form andmeans for separating the eoie and the upper portion of the outer moldforms from the lower por- 5 same from the core plate and means forseparating the core plate, the stripper plate and the upper portion ofthe' outer mold forms from the lower portion in succession.

3; In a machine of the character specified a rotatable mold framecarrying a series of molds radially disposed, with the upper por tion ofeach set of molds separa e from the body portion, in a plane at rightangles to the axes of the molds, a shaft upon which the mold frame isloosely mounted, means for coupling the shaft to the mold frame for therotation of the shaft in one direction, and means for Ice the molds fromrotation when the shaft is rotated in the opposite direction.

4. In a machine-of the character specified, a rotatable mold framecarrying a series of molds radiall disposed, with the upper portion ofeac set of molds separable from the body portion, in. a plane at rightangles to the axes of the molds, a shaft upon which the mold frame isloosely mounted, means for coupling the shaft to the mold frame for therotation of the shaft in one, direction, and vertically actuated devicesfor lifting the separable portion of the molds, -an means for couplingthe same to the shaft to separate the mold sections when the shaft isrotated in the opposite direction.

5. In a machine of the character specified a rotatable moldframecarrying a series of molds radially disposed, with the upper portion ofeach set of molds separablefrom the bodyportion, in a plane at rightangles -to the axes of the molds, a shaft upon which the ,mold frame isloosely mounted, means for coupling the shaft to the mold frame for therotation of theshaft in one direction, and vertically actuated devicesfor lifting theseparable portion 'of the molds, an

means for coupling thesame to the shaft to separate the mold sectionswhen the shaft is rotated in the opposite direction, and a lock for themold frame to hold same ri 'd dur ing the separation of the molds, anmeans for releasing the lock upon the rotation of the mold frame.

'6. In a machine of the character specified,

a rotatable mold frame with a plurality of series of molds radiallydisposed, each series ninety degrees at art, to form four sets, the'upper portion'o each set of molds separable 'from the body portion in aplane at right angles to the axes of the molds, a shaft upon which themold frame is loosely ratchet grooves on the mold frame, a sliding pincarried by said arm and a fixed cam to shift the pin to enforceengagement with the ratchet grooves, to couple the mold mounted, an armfixed oh the shaft and frame to the shaft whereby the sets of molds maybe alternately shifted from a vertical to a horizontal position.

7. In a machine of the character specified, a rotatable mold framecarrying a series of molds radially disposed, with the upper portion ofthe molds separable from the body portion in a plane at right angles tothe axes of the molds, a shaft upon which the mold frame is looselymounted, means for coupling the shaft to the mold frame to rotate thesame in one direction, vertically movable slides with arms to engage theseparable a rotatable mold frame with a plurality of series of moldsradially disposed, each series ninety degreesapart, to form four sets,the

. upper portion of each set of molds separable from the body portion ina plane at right anglesto the axes of the molds, a shaft upon which themold frame is loosely mounted, an arm fixed on the shaft and ratchetgroores on the nohl frame, a sliding pin carried by said arm and a fixedcam to shift the pin to enforce engagement. with the ratchet grooves tocouple the mold frame to the shaft whereby the sets of molds may bealternately shifted from a vertical to a horizontal position, with onemovement of the shaft, vertically movable slides with arms to engage theseparable portion of the molds to raise the same, with connectingmechanism intermediate the slides, and shaftwhereby reverse movement ofthe shaft will actuate the slides to separate the molds.

LEWIS H, LANIER Attest:

. ARTHUR H. EWALD,

K. SMITH.

